The Office of Career Exploration & Development and The Gilpatrick Center for Student Research & Fellowships empower students to integrate their liberal arts education in achieving a lifetime of personal and professional fulfillment. We provide programs, partnerships and resources that guide career exploration and promote students’ ability to live, work, and lead in a complex world.

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Pre-Engineering

Overview

With a long-standing tradition of strength in science and pre-engineering, Denison offers two plans to prepare for an engineering career.

Undergraduate Degree – In the first, students receive a bachelor's degree after four years at Denison with a major in natural sciences or mathematical sciences, followed by two years of graduate work at another institution leading to a master's degree in engineering.

Denison students who pursue the four-year undergraduate science or math degree route to engineering school have enjoyed exceptional success in gaining admission to a wide array of excellent graduate engineering programs. The most common majors pursued by Denison students interested in entering engineering graduate programs are physics, chemistry, math, biochemistry, and computer science.

Sampling of Graduate Programs

Sampling of Graduate Programs

University

Engineering Programs

Columbia University

Mechanical

Cornell University

Mechanical

Duke University

Environmental

Georgia Tech

Atmospheric Science, Material Science

Miami University

Applied Physics

The Ohio State University

Aerospace, Environmental, Mechanical, Nuclear

University of Colorado

Water Resources

University of Maryland

Biomechanical

University of Michigan

Biomechanical, Environmental

University of Texas

Civil

University of Wisconsin

Engineering Physics

U.S. Navy

Nuclear

Combined 3-2 Plan – The second plan is a “3-2” program in which students study three or four years at Denison and two at an affiliated engineering school and receive two bachelor's degrees. Denison is affiliated in such dual-degree programs with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Washington University (St. Louis), and Columbia University.

In this combined plan program, you earn two bachelors degrees, one from Denison in your chosen major and a second bachelors degree from one of our partner engineering schools. You first will spend either three or four years at Denison, where you will complete both (i) your degree requirements for Denison and (ii) the pre-engineering courses for your chosen program. Students majoring in physics at Denison can typically complete all of the combined plan requirements in three years, while other majors may need three or four years at Denison.

Our partner schools expect pre-engineering students to maintain at least a 3.0 average both in science and liberal arts courses while at Denison. After Denison you will spend two years at one of our partner schools to complete your chosen program.

Most of the programs at our partner schools require the same set of pre-engineering courses to be completed while you are at Denison:

Four courses in Physics: Quarks to Cosmos, Principles of Physics I and II, and Modern Physics [PHYS 125, 126, 127, 200]

Steven Doty is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Denison University. He teaches courses at all levels of physics and astronomy. His research centers on understanding the processes and environments of stellar birth and death. He also does work on understanding everyday phenomena.

Dr. Doty conducts research involving undergraduate students in a number of areas, including:

Star and planet formation

Stellar old-age and death

Mathematical physics and ordering

Everyday phenomena

Research Keywords:

Astrophysics

Research Overview:

Computational astrophysics research on understanding star-formation, both through theoretical studies and the application of models to interpreting ground- and space-based observations of these regions.